Experimental Film and Queer Materiality

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"Juan Suarez's new book on queer materiality in experimental film is fiercely original, thrillingly insightful and simply a great joy to read. Through a series of stunning readings and revelatory theoretical elaborations, Suarez makes a brilliant case for the myriad ways that sexuality is enmeshed in the object world of everyday life. He shows us how glitter, amphetamines, Ben-Day dots, brightly colored plastic and other materials of post-war consumer capital were essential elements of the sexual worlds presented by filmmakers like Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith, Marie Menken, the Kuchar
Brothers, and Andy Warhol. In so doing, Suarez makes a major contribution to queer theory and film studies." * Jonathan Flatley, author of Like Andy Warhol
* "In his landmark publication Bike Boys, Drag Queens, and Superstars, Juan Suarez pried open avant-garde cinema to a long overdue reckoning with its queerness. In his revelatory new book, this most dynamic scholar compels us to reconsider it again, not only as a movement in which queer bodies and sex abound, but as one that queers our experience of the material world, down to the very grain of celluloid film. Only the brilliant Suarez could compel shit and glitter to yield such profound insights." * Ara Osterweil, author of Flesh Cinema: The Corporeal Turn in Avant-Garde Film
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